A church-rosser checker tool for conditional order-sorted equational maude specifications

Francisco Durán, José Meseguer

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Abstract

The Church-Rosser property, together with termination, is essential for an equational specification to have good executability conditions, and also for having a complete agreement between the specification's initial algebra, mathematical semantics, and its operational semantics by rewriting. Checking this property for expressive specifications that are order-sorted, conditional with possibly extra variables in their condition, and whose equations can be applied modulo different combinations of associativity, commutativity and identity axioms is challenging. In particular, the resulting conditional critical pairs that cannot be joined have often an intuitively unsatisfiable condition or seem intuitively joinable, so that sophisticated tool support is needed to eliminate them. Another challenge is the presence of different combinations of associativity, commutativity and identity axioms, including the very challenging case of associativity without commutativity for which no finitary unification algorithms exist. In this paper we present the foundations and illustrate the design and use of a completely new version of the Maude Church-Rosser Checker tool that addresses all the above-mentioned challenges and can deal effectively with complex conditional specifications modulo axioms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRewriting Logic and Its Applications - 8th International Workshop, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010, Revised Selected Papers
Pages69-85
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010 - Paphos, Cyprus
Duration: Mar 20 2010Mar 21 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6381 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other8th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2010, Held as a Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPaphos
Period3/20/103/21/10

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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